OPINION

By Shilpa Raina*  For six years, Anna Marie Lope lived in constant fear and depression. Exhausted by continuous emotional, physical and sexual abuse, she twice attempted suicide, only to enrage her husband who would then doubly punish…

By Saeed Naqvi * A principal reason for Narendra Modi being swept to power in May was disgust with Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Manmohan Singh - indecisive, short on ideas, bereft of charisma and supervising a government of scams. In a…

By M.R. Narayan Swamy * If India's idea of an International Yoga Day has found easy acceptance in the UN, much of the credit must go to Paramhansa Yogananda, India's first yoga guru in the US whose 62nd death anniversary falls this…

By Ashok Mohapatra* “After Biju, who?” was a question that kept the Odisha media on the tenterhooks during the 1990s. Many blamed the man who straddled the state’s political landscape like a colossus for the confusion and uncertainty.…

By Priyanka Mohanty * We treasure forever our days in high school and college because they are easily the most exciting and fun filled days in our lives. We study hard to graduate with good marks, make friends, fall and rise in love,…

* By Tulsidas Mishra Two days from now, one more year will fade out and become flashback material. Talking of flashbacks, 29th of December has a great significance in the context of Hindi films because it is the birthday of Rajesh…

By Thin Pin The title of a popular Bollywood film 'Chor Machaye Shor' aptly describes the situation in Odisha today where the real culprit is pronounced Mr Clean while the beneficiaries (or victims?) of the system foisted and patronised …